Mrs. Roderick’s Lesson Plans for Week of 10/17/16 to 10/21/16
KCCRS: RL8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.9, 8.10; RI8.1-8.4, 8.6, 8.9-8.10; W8.2, 8.4, 8.9,8.10; L.8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Mrs. Roderick’s lesson plans for Monday 10/17/16
No School – Teacher In-Service
Mrs. Roderick’s lesson plans for Tuesday 10/18/16
Advisement
 Announcements/Attendance/Lunch Count
 Study Hall/Grade check/Progress Monitoring
Periods 3-6 – 8th LA
 Attendance
 DUE: M&M activity
 Journal: Poetry practice – practice the 5 steps as a group; begin selecting poems
 Go over last week’s vocabulary
 Practice preposition jingles
 Grammar Monday Lesson:
 Entrance ticket
 Introduce adverbs, conjunctions, interjections
 Practice
 Assignment: Worksheet #22 and on the back create 3 sentences including conjunctions and interjections in each. (due
Wednesday)
Period 7 – Making Gains
 Attendance
 Small group reading
Mrs. Roderick’s lesson plans for Wednesday 10/19/16
Periods 3-6 – 8th LA
 Attendance
 Library checkout
 Due: Worksheet #22
 Practice preposition jingles
 Explain the plan for “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
 Do Step 1 of the lesson plan:
1. FIRST READ (Key Ideas and Details)
Students read text
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Prior to the lesson, students will be organized into small, heterogeneous groups.
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Teacher will begin by reminding the students that we have been reading short stories about secrets. Students and
teacher will engage in a review discussion to identify the secrets we have witnessed in each of the 3 short stories we
have read.
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Teacher will instruct students to read the short story, ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, individually.
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Teacher will remind students to circle unfamiliar/difficult words, underline in pencil confusing portions of the text,
and place stars next to important/interesting ideas. Teacher will also encourage the students to make notations in the
margins stating why that part of the text was confusing.
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Think-Pair-Share to check understanding
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After reading the story, students will share their notations with their small group members using the Think-PairShare structure.
 No homework
Period 7 – Making Gains
 Attendance
 Mrs. Parrott – fluency, etc.
 Mrs. Roderick – word analysis: Lesson 4A
 I-station
Mrs. Roderick’s lesson plans for Thursday 10/20/16
Advisement
 Announcements/Attendance/Lunch Count
 Lion’s Quest: Unit 2, Lesson 3
Periods 3-6 – 8th LA
 Announcements/Attendance
 Due: X
 Journal: complete vocabulary 31-35 (Due Friday)
 Practice preposition jingles
 Finish the Think-Pair-Share activity from step one if needed
 Complete Step 2 of the lesson plan:
2. SECOND READ (Craft and Structure)
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Reread story focusing on text dependent questions #1 and #2.
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Students will complete assigned task provided in question #1.
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Discuss in small and whole group
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On a separate sheet of notebook paper, students will answer question #2.
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Students will use a blue marker to underline evidence to support the answer to question #2.
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Students will share their answer and evidence with their small group members using the Write-Round
Robin structure.
Period
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7 – Making Gains
Attendance
Mrs. Parrott – fluency, etc.
Mrs. Roderick – word analysis: Lesson 4A
I-station
Mrs. Roderick’s lesson plans for Friday 10/21/16
Advisement
 Announcements/Attendance/Lunch Count
 Speaker: B. Dooley (mechanic)
Periods 3-6 – 8th LA
 Attendance
 Due: vocabulary
 Journal: practice similes and metaphors
 Finish Write-Round-Robin from Step 2 if needed
 Complete Step 3 of the lesson plans:
3. THIRD READ (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas)
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Reread short story focusing on text dependent question
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Students use pencils, post-it, or highlighters to mark text
Portions of text that will aid in citing text based evidence
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Discuss in small and whole group
Journaling with text dependent question
Students will use a T-chart to answer question #3.
Students will share their findings with their small group members using the Write-Round Robin structure.
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Period 7 – Making Gains
 Attendance
 I-station